method acting / method= an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed

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Acting: Actingis the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

Acting: In law, when someone is said to be acting in a position it can mean one of three things.

Acting: An Acting rank is a military designation allowing a commissioned or non-commissioned officer to assume a rank—usually higher and usually temporary—with the pay and allowances appropriate to that grade. As such, an officer may be ordered back to the previous grade. This situation may arise when a lower-ranking officer is called upon to replace a senior officer, or fill a position higher than the current rank held.

Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions for Acting

A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals by Cecil R. Reynolds, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen

TELZROW Kent State University CONGENITAL DISORDERS MINOR
PHYSICAL ANOMALIES ACTING OUT Acting out has been defined by Harriman
(1975) as the “direct expression of conflicted tensions in annoying or antisocial ...

ACTING Fr.: jeu de theatre; Ger.:
Spiel; Sp.: actuation Acting is the visible and properly "scenic" part of the
performance, through which the spectator receives the whole of the event with
the force of ...

Ham acting. Acting which is exaggerated and unconvincing. The development of
*naturalism called attention to the artificiality of nineteenth-century melodramatic
and tragic acting, so that strong histrionic gestures came to be seen as 'ham'.